Baiye City, a small border town in the western part of the Xuanyin Domain.
Watching the originally barren desert sprout patches of lush green shoots, Wu Ziyong felt a mixed sense of joy and dread.
It had been a full twelve thousand years. Life was scarce here, and apart from dedicated spiritual fields, there was no life in the wilderness. The plains had turned into deserts.
Now, suddenly, there was life, and in a barren place like a desert, where life should be least expected.
This made his initial surprise turn into alarm.
"Is this strange phenomenon good or bad?"
Wu Ziyong calmed himself, sat down cross-legged, and began to meditate.
Soon, his fear vanished completely, replaced by a look of pleasant surprise.
"Yang Qi! The Yang Qi of heaven and earth has revived!"
"Although the Yang Qi is still very scarce, I can cultivate normally from now on!"
Overjoyed, Wu Ziyong couldn't help but burst into loud laughter, attracting others from Baiye City.
"Wu brat, what are you howling about?"
A man dressed in women's clothing and wearing exquisite makeup, walked out of a wooden house. His voice was rough, but his tone was effeminate.
"Uncle Dai, cultivate for a while, and you'll know once you cultivate."
"Yang Qi~ The Yang Qi has revived!"
"Everyone come out quickly! The Yang Qi has revived~"
"The Yang Qi has truly revived."
Soon, hundreds of male immortals in strange attire appeared in Baiye City. All of them were Golden Immortals, all male, yet all possessed an effeminate appearance.
Baiye City was the gathering place for these Golden Immortals who had fallen into demonic cultivation.
"Haha~ Revived Yang Qi, we can cultivate, we can recover."
The cheers of hundreds of Golden Immortals shook the heavens and earth. Many male immortals burst into tears as they laughed.
Indeed, the Yang Qi in the Xuanyin Immortal Realm had begun to revive.
Originally, the Xuanyin Immortal Realm was heavy in Yin Qi and scarce in Yang Qi. When the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable ruled this realm, he had further extracted the already scarce Yang Qi from the entire realm for his cultivation, causing the life force of the entire realm to begin to extinguish.
In the past century, a massive amount of Yin Qi had been absorbed due to the dual cultivation of the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable and Yang Hong. The suppressed Yang Qi had finally begun to revive.
With the array set up by the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable, Yin Qi continued to be drawn towards the center of the immortal realm—Xuanyin Immortal City.
The further away from Xuanyin Immortal City, the faster the Yang Qi revived; while in the vicinity of Xuanyin Immortal City, Yang Qi had completely disappeared.
The male immortals and male immortal beasts still alive in the Xuanyin Immortal Realm, upon learning of the Yang Qi's revival, all left their lairs and flew to the borders of the Xuanyin Domain.
Many female immortals also began to leave the inner regions of the Xuanyin Immortal Realm. The once prosperous Xuanyin Immortal City was instantly deserted, and millions of immortals vanished overnight.
Only the Loli General Lu Shaoshi and the female steward in green, Duan Yujing, remained loyal, guarding the floating island in Xuanyin Immortal City.
It was also on this day that rumors began to circulate throughout the Xuanyin Immortal Realm that the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable had fallen into demonic cultivation and frozen herself.
However, no one believed it was because the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable was about to break through.
Thirty-six years after Yang Hong and the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable began their dual cultivation, the entire floating island was completely frozen. The rumors of the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable's demonic cultivation had been circulating for sixty years. Many immortals had personally visited the floating ice, which spanned over three hundred miles.
The rumors naturally became more detailed.
Boom~
In the hundredth year of their dual cultivation, the floating island suddenly lost its power and fell into Xuanyin Immortal City, smashing a large number of unoccupied houses.
The Xuanyin Immortal Venerable was aware of everything happening in the outside world, from the moment Bai Shuang appeared. However, she was at a critical juncture of breakthrough and dared not leave seclusion, allowing all the immortals to depart.
Whoosh~ Whoosh~
At the moment the floating island fell, a strong wind swept across the entire Xuanyin Domain. Within a radius of a full 1.6 billion miles, winds carrying Yin Qi surged rapidly towards Xuanyin City.
In just nine days, except for Xuanyin City, the balance of heaven and earth's immortal energy in other places, which was Yin-dominant and Yang-scarce, instantly shifted to Yang-dominant and Yin-scarce.
And the entire Xuanyin Immortal City was frozen into a giant ice block, nine hundred miles long and nine miles high.
"Sister Yujing, do you feel a faint trace of Creation Dao rhyme emanating from the ice?"
"Shaoshi, you need to cultivate the rules properly. This is not Dao rhyme, it is already a law—the Law of Creation."
Outside the massive ice, Lu Shaoshi and Duan Yujing still stood guard. Even though the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable was now completely abandoned, she still had her last two loyal subordinates.
"Shaoshi, start meditating and comprehending. Although the Law of Creation is different from your own Law of Metal, understanding some of it will be very beneficial to you."
"Sister Yujing, what about you? You cultivate the Law of Wood, which should be even more useful."
"I will guard you first. Ten years later, you will guard me as I comprehend."
"Alright."
The two discussed their plan, with one cultivating and the other standing guard.
At this moment, Yang Hong, whose cultivation had just broken through to the Profound Immortal realm, began to rapidly increase his cultivation.
The Law of Creation was Yang Hong's law. Through a hundred years of contemplation, he had perfectly integrated the "Xuanyang Immortal Art" into the "Pure Yang Immortal Codex," upgrading the low-grade Earth-tier "Pure Yang Immortal Codex" to the mid-grade Earth-tier.
Having acted as a filter for a hundred years, Yang Hong, whose cultivation had not increased, began to absorb the special immortal essence containing Yin and Yang attributes into his body through the merged locations.
In just ten days, his cultivation broke through from the first layer of Profound Immortal to the second, twenty days to the third, fifty days to the fourth. The progress was astonishingly rapid!
Other immortals took thousands or even tens of thousands of years to break through one layer of Profound Immortal cultivation; his progress was measured in days.
In one year, he broke through from Profound Immortal to Golden Immortal!
Xuanyin Immortal Venerable Yin Caiwei watched Yang Hong's cultivation skyrocket with wide eyes, disbelieving, doubting if she was a fake immortal, and doubting if she was in the Immortal Realm or the Cultivation Realm.
As the gaseous immortal energy completely transformed into liquid immortal essence, his cultivation speed began to slow down.
It took another thirty-five years for the first immortal crystal to condense within his body.
The Heavenly Tribulation arrived as scheduled!
"Holy crap~ Retreat quickly!"
"Sister Yujing, run!"
Outside the ice, Lu Shaoshi and Duan Yujing, seeing the sudden Heavenly Tribulation, fled for their lives, only stopping after running for over a thousand miles.
"Hiss~ Tribulation clouds within a thousand-mile radius, the City Lord is about to break through, she is undergoing tribulation!"
"It must be! It definitely is! I knew it, I knew Sister Caiwei would succeed."
"Shaoshi, quickly take out all your array flags and array discs, and protect Xuanyin City, lest any scoundrels disturb Sister Caiwei's breakthrough."
"Right, right~ Set up the array~ Hurry and set up the array."
The two were quite fast, but the thousand-mile radius of tribulation clouds still attracted the attention of nearby powerhouses. Great Luo Profound Immortals, Golden Immortals, and Profound Immortals arrived outside the tribulation cloud's range one after another.
"The old demoness of Xuanyin is not dead yet!"
"Heaven is blind, the wicked old demoness of Xuanyin is still alive."
"Find a way to kill her!"
All the approaching immortals wished for the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable's death. The most vociferous among them were the former middle and high-ranking officials of Xuanyin City. They had rebelled once and were most afraid that the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable had not died. Once she broke through to Great Luo Golden Immortal, she would kill them all.
Some were already plotting to kill the Xuanyin Immortal Venerable.
Rumble~ Rumble~
A purple tribulation lightning struck, and all the immortals, without exception, retreated another hundred miles, including Lu Shaoshi and Duan Yujing.
"Hahaha~ It's the Great Luo Golden Immortal Tribulation!"
"It's really the Great Luo Golden Immortal Tribulation!"
The crowd exclaimed incessantly, with surprise, fear, and even more confusion.